Built in 1919, the school was located so close to the Colorado / Utah border that children from Utah often attended.

The Driggs Mansion is an important geographic landmark in rural Mesa County. 

The 1908 park, a popular gathering place, is geographically important as a highly visible component of the local landscape and focus of the downtown commercial core.  Such centrally located public parks are a rare resource in Colorado.

Extending for 407 feet over the Colorado River, the 1945 steel rigid connected Parker through truss structure features two 200-foot long spans.  The bridge was designed by the Colorado Department of Highways, fabricated by Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company, and built by A.S. Horner. 

The Torpedo Bomber M (TBM) Avenger Aircraft N53503 is a World War II single engine torpedo bomber in flying condition.  The military aircraft was manufactured by General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft division in 1945, and accepted for service by the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance later that same year. 

This early Mesa County community center dates from 1920.

In Mesa County, more than 12,000 Native American sites are known to exist, many of which are connected by extensive trail systems.  

The Uncompahgre Complex is a prehistoric site of the Great Basin during the Holocene. The findings and theories of the complex have been subject to much criticism over the years since its discovery.

Originally from the Plateau Valley in Iowa, Jess Hittle bought 289 acres of land near Collbran in 1914.

After the tragic loss of his wife Emma and daughter Ida, William Hill and sons Kenneth and Norman left their home in Kansas City in the late 1880s and headed for Colorado.